Monday 29 March 2010

Brain Bag




















My latest work. The brain bag.

I got this inspiration after the "Medicine and Art exhibition" that I visited at the Mori Art Museum. When I was doing science I had many many encounters with myself being bored with it. It was as if science is a very rigid field that doesn't quite let the mind free like art. This exhibition reminded me that science and art can be combined together to make really interesting art works.
So I went home and immediately thought of this brain bag.
I wanted it to be full of colours, so I have used different cheerful materials for each part of the brain. Putting the brain parts together was quite an effort, since I have done a quilting method for it.
Overall I'm happy with this bag, especially the brain design part. The only "mistake" I made was to use a stretchy material for the outer layer of the bag and a cotton material for the inside. This has created a slight difference in the length of the two materials at the top part of the bag. So the finishing wasn't nice.
:-(

Well, good experiment for me though!
:-)
WIll probably make a newer version of the brain bag again. Wait for the post!

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私の最新の作品、ブレインバッグ。

この間森美術館での「医学と芸術展」を見に行って改めて科学と美術の関係に気づきました。前の仕事は科学関係だったがその間には科学はつまらないなと思ったこともしばしばありました。科学は美術みたいに自由じゃないと思いましたが違いますね。世の中にはまだまだ科学と美術の魅力がいっぱいあります。
その思いでこのバッグのアイディアが生まれました。
明るいバッグにしたかったのでカラフルな布を使い、脳の各部分をキルト風に縫いました。時間かかりました。
これで明るいバッグになりましたが唯一の失敗は外側の布はストレッチ素材を使ったことです。バッグの中の素材は普通のコットンだったのでバッグの口のところで外側の素材がのびて内側と外側の素材の長さが違ってきたのでキレイに縫えなかった。。

でもこの反省でまた新しいブレインバッグを作るので待ててね!


2 comments:

  1. Well well... Talking about mori. I was just looking at a site and thought I wanted to tell you about it.

    http://morigirl.blogspot.com/

    So there we go. I really like morigirl. Perhaps you knew already.

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  2. 可愛い「脳」だね。

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